Adios, Motherfucker: A Gentleman's Progress Through Rock and Roll
✍ Scribed by Ruffino, Michael
- Book ID
- 109519209
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 362 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062228963
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
A blend of This Is Spinal Tap and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the cult classic confessions of a debauched rock 'n' roller and his adventures in excess on the '80s hair-metal nostalgia tour through Middle America, now in a revised and updated edition.
Once upon a time at the start of the new century, the unheard-of Unband got a chance to drink, fight, and play loud music with '80s metal bands like Dio and Def Leppard. To the mix they brought illegal pyrotechnics, a giant red inflatable hand with movable digits, a roadie dubiously named Safety Bear, a high tolerance for liver damage, and an infectious love of rock & roll and everything it represents.
Unband bassist Michael Ruffino takes us on an epic joyride across a surrealistic American landscape where we meet mute Christian groupies, crack-smoking Girl Scouts, beer-drinking chimps, and thousands of head-bangers who cannot accept that hair metal is dead. Here, too, are uncensored portraits of Ronnie James...